Bottle and its stoppering



n. 626,557. Patented :une s, |899.` M. M. J. o. oicunon.

BOTTLE ANB ITS STOPPERING.

lAppliclticm led July 15, 1896-) QNo Modal.)

T Y v l UNITn STATES ATENT einen.'

MAURICE MARY JOSEPH OWEN OCONOR, OF BALLYBRAOK, IRELAND.-

BOTTLE AND ITS STOPPERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,557, dated June 6, 1899.

Application i'lledJuly l5, 1896. Serial No. 599,270. (No model.)

T (all 71171/0721/ it 777/04/ concern:

Be it known th at I, Mannion MARY JOSEPH OWEN OCONOR, captain in the 'lhird Bat- `talion Connaught Rangers, a subject of the or other products being fraudulentl y passed' off upon the public as the goods of persons or firms other than those from whom they have really emanated; and my invention relates for this purpose to certain improvements, hereinafter described, in bottles of the kind so made that when once filled and stoppered it is necessary in order to remove the contents to so mutilate the bottle that while it will o r may still be capable of use as an ordinary bottle the fact that it has been so mutilated will be easily recognizable by an intending purchaser knowing the characteristie of the bottle in which the particular article he is purchasing is bottled by the firm or person whose manufacture or product he is desirous of buying.

Now according to my invention that portion of the bottle-neck which is to receive the cork is made with a hole through it at one side and at the opposite side with an internal recess and a part of much less thickness than the remainder, and after a cork has been inserted there is driven into the cork through the said hole in the neck a barbed pin or blade, which is passed through the hole in the side of the neck and into and through the cork, so that the point of the barbed pin or blade projects into the recess in the opposite side of the neck. The cork or stopper may be pierced with a suitable sharp instrument preparatory to insertion ot the barbed pin orH blade.

Figure l of the accompanying illustrative drawings shows in central vertical section part of a hottie-neck embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a modication.

Referring to Fig. l, Ct is the ordinary part of the neck with thickened upper part or rim l). c is a part, which may be round or of other form, of the wall of theV neck made much thinner than the rest, and (l is a nor-.

mally-closed hole o r recess inside the neck.

the opposite side. f is a cork forced into the neck as usual, and g is a pin or thin blade pointed at its forward end, and 7L h are rearwardly-directed barbs. After the cork has been forced into place the barbed pin or blade is driven point foremost through the cork and with i-ts pointed end into the holcor recess d. The barbs prevent the pin or blade being drawn back. To withdraw it, the thin part c of the wall of the bottle-neck has to be broken and the projecting point of the pin or blade being then seized by any suitable instrument can be pulled out, thus enabling .the cork to be withdrawn from the bottle in the ordinary way.

The invention can be applied to Stoppers of hard material as Well as to Stoppers of soft material, such as cork, the Stoppers being in such cases formed with a transverse hole through them. Fig. 2 shows the invention applied to a screw-stopper of hard material. The hole /L' is at the end adjacent to the hole e in the bottle-neck enlarged, as shown, to permit barbs on the pin or blade to open out and bear against the inner side of the bottleneck, as shown, and so prevent the withdrawal of the pin or barb. As will be seen, the arrangement in this case is such that only the thin part c of the wall, which is of comparatively small area, will be broken through, so that when the fact that the bottle has been mutilated is easily recognizable its neck will not be broken off or be s0 damaged as to prevent the bottle from being used as an ordinary bottle.

lVhat I claim is- 1. A bottle-neck having diametrically arranged holes in opposite sides of 'its wall, one of said holes extending entirely through the Wall at one side and the other only partly through said wall at the opposite side and closed by a part of the bottle-neck of less thickness than the adjacent portion of the bottleneck, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

2. A bottle-neck having two diametricallyarranged holes d and e in line with each other and of which e passes completely through `one IOO side of the bottle-neck and d is closed at its' outer end by a thinwall or layer c, said thin wall or layer being flush or approximately Hush with the outer surface of the bottle-neck and capableof being easily perforated, without liability of breaking off the bottle-neck, by a pin forced endwise through the said holes and bottle-stopper,substantially as described.y

3. A bottle having its neck formed at one side with a hole and at the opposite side with an internal recess, a stopper located in said bottle-neck, and a barbed pin having its respective ends located in said hole and recess and its barbs pointing in the direction of said hole, substantially as described for the purpose specified. r l

4. The combination of a bottle-neck having ha vpart of less thickness than the rest of the `wall ofV said neck a recess in the inner surrecess and at the other end into said hole in the bottle-neck, the barbs of said pin being fiexible and having a natural tendency to spring outwardly and the hole in the bottleneck being of less size than the barbed pin, when the barbs therein are in their extended positions, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

5. The combination in a bottle-neck of al part of less thickness than the rest of the Wall of said neck, a recess in the inner surface of the neck next to said thin part, a hole through MAURICE MARY JOSEPH OWEN OCOOR.

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A. L. GRUGGEN, F. J. BROUGHAM. 

